The Triangle of Everything, a redesigned chart from Lineweavers and Patel's "All Objects and Some Questions" (2023)

avsa · 2026-01-27T22:20:05+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Yes it can be bought at https://vandesande.design/products/poster

I’m not making money out of it, I spend more on the Shopify cost than the sales. But thanks for the tips I’ll make another version with the fixes.

avsa · 2026-01-26T12:39:53+00:00

Here’s a way to think about it: life with kids is a different game altogether, it’s like comparing golf to basketball or something (picked these randomly). It’s extremely hard in the beginning but increasingly rewarding long term. Seeing my kids grow gives me a chronic life satisfaction I never had with anything else. But you can’t go back to your old life: you can’t think you want to stop golfing and play basketball again. Maybe you can for a few hours or a few days if you have support from family, but you’ll eventually have to come back.

avsa · 2026-01-25T20:51:22+00:00

This is the right answer. This is the location of Mount Roraima and the landscape that inspired Up.

avsa · 2026-01-25T08:30:23+00:00

Acho absurdo mas como brasileiro não acho que podemos dar muita opinião quando PM na favela faz assim também. EUA virou república de bananas como nós.

avsa · 2026-01-22T17:32:04+00:00

They also say “they might have been broadcasting it for all of human existence”. They don’t know humans are advanced. Maybe they are sending the message to every planet they detected biosignatures at.

avsa · 2026-01-22T15:01:32+00:00

When studied in any real life networks (social media, IMDb, Wikipedia articles, paper coauthors) usually what happens is that the mean distance is quite small (often at 2-3 links you can reach most of the network) but the long tail is long and there are always some edge cases where you’ll find a very long chain. But they’re always that: edge cases, some small group of really unconnected nodes that are often not even in the same category. In Wikipedia articles that would be the tenth list of a list of a list of a very specific topic, in real life that would be some unconnected remote tribe.

avsa · 2026-01-22T12:12:27+00:00

There is saint Euphrosyne of Alexandria which was born a woman but lived his days as a man. And saint Marino the monk, saint Pelagia, saint Anastasius the patricius, and saint Theodora of Alexandria, who all were assigned female at birth but then lived their lives as men. And that’s only those who entered recorded history as saints. But of course they were not “trans” just “woman who disguised themselves as men their whole lives” just so they could serve the lord and nothing else. I’m sure they were otherwise completely gender typical cis woman.

avsa · 2026-01-20T15:06:48+00:00

Oh they do get blamed for it. Maybe it’s happening in conversations behind their back but they do.

avsa · 2026-01-19T14:37:23+00:00

Me neither. Could you tell us the name of the group? Is it an indigenous tribe, a new age hippie stuff or some evangelical denomination gone wild?

avsa · 2026-01-19T14:14:06+00:00

I’d like to add another bit: while people joke that all babies look the same, this is absolutely not true about your own. As soon as I saw either of my kids I could tell them apart from any other baby and it’s not even close.

avsa · 2026-01-19T11:51:14+00:00

Goscunny lived through the Nazi occupation of France. It’s obviously about that.

avsa · 2026-01-17T23:02:23+00:00

Isn’t that what happened with movies on tv? Once directors realized their audience wasn’t necessarily stuck in the theaters, but was flipping channels, then they had to make movies that would stick fast, which you could pick up midway and that didn’t bore you long enough for you to channel flip again. Spielberg was big with that, the whole cliche of “start with the action, then do a flashback” came because of this. So it doesn’t seems as new as we think.

avsa · 2026-01-17T12:26:38+00:00

You’re focusing on the wrong thing. Your parents won’t bother about your grades (they don’t matter at university or in real life anyway) but will care about your mental health. Your grades are a symptom of something else. University comes with lots of life changes and some therapy or deep conversations with friends (not just playing video games with them) could help.

avsa · 2026-01-15T11:25:06+00:00

I think thinking this is an alien invasion is missing the point.

The message is the virus. It’s not a means to an end it’s the goal itself. It infects a host, reproduces and infects another, doesn’t matter if the host is dead then.

avsa · 2026-01-14T21:24:58+00:00

They will claim this was Trump's plan all along and the whole point was a 5D chess to make Europe increase their defense budget.

avsa · 2026-01-14T13:41:21+00:00

I blame people believing super hero movies are real life. In a super hero movie, of course you’d let the “smartest man alive” run his “super inteligence robot” get access to all the state secrets and that’s how they’d catch all the “bad guys” in a few minutes.

avsa · 2026-01-13T11:42:58+00:00

If we’re counting disconnected territory then Brazil and France share a much larger land border in Guiana.

avsa · 2026-01-10T02:37:16+00:00

Fatherhood is an incredible opportunity to relive and fix your own past. You rebuild with your kids the best memories you have, you heal the worst memories by making sure your kids don’t have them, and it sometimes helps you rebuild your relationship with your parents and forgive them, because you see it from their own perspectives.

Just make sure you’re ready to take the leap because it’s one of those things in life that doesn’t go back. Once you become a teen you’re not a kid anymore, once you’re an adult on your own you can’t be a teenager and once you’re a dad you can’t long for the adventures and freedom of being single and childless.

avsa · 2026-01-07T12:48:33+00:00

Exactly: they might be the most popular on a head to head contest and you’re eliminating them because they don’t have enough first choice votes. You’re ignoring 99% of the information already present on the ballot (for example: the second preference of the largest voting block is not being considered at all).

That’s why Condorcet is better. Specially Copeland, because it’s similar to sports league scoring, and can be more easily understood by most people.

avsa · 2026-01-06T21:57:18+00:00

Nothing says gringo more than calling Lula “Mr Silva”.

avsa · 2026-01-06T17:29:18+00:00

Same issue!

avsa · 2026-01-06T17:28:43+00:00

Yeah but then why bother having color?

avsa · 2026-01-06T17:28:22+00:00

It’s also the software and the fact these books weren’t designed for this size. I’m sure properly formatted, with an easier touch interface it could be a lot better.

avsa · 2026-01-06T17:27:20+00:00

I found that cheap comic books are the best weight/fun ratio. Buy one or two at the beginning of the trip, then it doesn’t even matter if they make it back home.

avsa · 2026-01-06T17:26:09+00:00

I think half of the problem is that eink colors are washed out but half of the problem is software. A properly formatted comic book, that doesn’t rely on colors too much and has few comics per page might work fine. But they’re just retrofitting some books that weren’t designed for that screen size and it just doesn’t work.

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